iPhone updated without my permission

obviously CAN happen, because it does, and also did to me.

There is a dialog you have to agree with to perform the actual upgrade. As noted, the download may be automatic and against your wishes. The actual installation of the upgrade requires your explicit permission.

There is a prompt asking for your passcode to schedule the installation for a later time. There is a link below that to defer the update. I do this every few days now. I am in full control of the update process.

Dispute this all you wish. It is the reality.

japxeum wrote:

I woke up in the morning and the phone was updated. It happened to my wife iPhone 6s too.

Because, at some time, when it asked you if you wanted to update later, you tapped OK. People often don't pay attention to such boxes, or, they think they meant something else.

But, again, what's done is done. Are you interested in resolving your issues?

Did you see this dialog?

If you entered your passcode, you were agreeing to update your phone between 2am and 4am if your phone was being charged.

If you tapped on "Remind Me Later" you would have delayed that installation.

This just happened to me too!!! I have an iPhone 6s and 6sPlus and both were on 10.3.3 because I use various network tools to obtain the MAC address. My 6sPlus updated first and I did not tell it to update. Immediately I checked my 6s and put it in airplane mode; WIFI was still enabled though. Several days later I go to use the 6s and it has updated to 11.4.1. Contacted Apple and they act as though this should not have happened but yet it did and the multiple posts in this forum in addition evidence of their intentional breach.

Canada_Rob wrote:

Apple you must allow any iOS platforms to be re-installed back to our idevices !!!

Apple is not reading here. Use the Feedback page to let Apple know how you feel:

Product Feedback - Apple

I 100% agree with you HiredSound. I have been denying the update for weeks, I never allow updates until they have been out for 1-2 months and I have researched the bugs to decide if I want it or not. The last two updates were denied by me like always for several weeks, I understand the process I have the same response every time. Then like you one day this week I wake up to find my phone has updated on its own. No body else has access to my phone, I believe there is some kind of glitch somewhere that is allowing this to happen. I could be up in the night, in fact I think I must have been to have made this mistake myself sense in the past I have managed to not update my phone for 1 1/2 years without a problem and the last two have happened apparently without permission. Maybe I'm sleep walking/updating. Still I wish I had and option to stop the repeated reminders popping up. I can clearly see if they would just have a red dot with a 1 in it next to the settings icon indicating an update like other app icons do and stop pestering me. Just my 2 pennies worth.

Actually this is a real issue. I have tested it and know it to be a real issue. Even without clicking accept, it has sometimes installed on devices that do not approve the install. I understand that it should not work that way, but it has done it. You can say that it is designed to not work that way, but fact is that it is not performing as expected. There is a bug. I noticed it when my iPad said that it didn’t update because it wasn’t plugged into power. I have since tested it on other device, and the issue is real.

I would love to be able to say “No” to an update and have it stop asking me. I’m sure a lot of us here already find it annoying that we can’t toggle off the badge icon on the settings app. We’re being oppressed by apple, and I for one have already ceased to buy anymore devices from Apple.

There is clearly a divide in this thread as to weather or not Apple would take it upon themselves to FORCE the newest IOS on us. I absolutely believe they would (did it to my phone last night :-/).... they are Apple not some benevolent giver of the tech. What I find most amusing is that the doubters that this could ever happen are SUPER Fanboys. It has been my experience with SUPER Fanboys that you always have the latest software... generally BETA. You typically do not wait weeks or months to update your device.

P.S. My auto update for IOS 12 is off.

But did you see this dialog?

The update can not and will not happen unless you successfully enter your passcode to give permission.

Tens of millions of iOS users do not have the same experience as you.

My iPhone just updated without my permission while in a foreign country with a foreign sim and now the phone is asking for a 3 digit pin but the local sim has a 4 digit one. And I need to head to the airport. Rather ******

The guys that say this can't happen must be trolls working for Apple. It obviously CAN happen, because it does, and also did to me. My 5s is practically a brick now while I have not agreed to or allowed any updates. It's now on 11.1, none of which I authorized. It is absolutely Apples way of forcing you out of your phone. So, new SE on the way today. We'll see how long this one runs before I jump ship from Apple.

Nobody told me. Can you read?

This is my experience and is corroborated by many others here. Apple is perhaps the most careful technology company about respecting user's rights and you insist they will force updates on you.

It's baffling how inaccurate and angry you can be about this, and yet you buy another Apple device.

Your fantasy world is funny. Becasue you are absolutely wrong. I’d check with whoever told you that lie. Apple might want you to belive that. But I guarantee you I have NOT click anything resembling an agreement to update my phone. Yet it is. As are many others. 100% fact. You have now been educated. -you’re welcome

Nope. Not possible. Intentionally did not want to update and slow my phone down. I made sure I was not ever choosing to update. Believe what yowere told by Apple I guess. I mean. What would they have to gain be lying right? I’m telling you 1st hand fact.